Entire 101st Airborne Division Deploying to Iraq (around 20,000 soldiers)

[buzzsaw_23]

Entire 101st Airborne Division Deploying to Iraq
Posted: 9/23/2005 3:14:00 PM
Updated: 9/23/2005 5:59:03 PM

The 101st Airborne Division is once again answering the call to serve in Iraq.

Around 20,000 soldiers got their final briefing Friday afternoon at Ft. Campbell. It's been two years since the division was last deployed to Iraq.

Soldiers will board planes and be heading off Friday to do numerous duties, including helping train Iraqi law enforcement. Families took the afternoon to say goodbye.

This is just the 5th time in the history of the 101st that the entire division has been deployed all at once. The soldiers will be gone a year.


http://www.newschannel5.com/content/news/14622.asp

[KansDem]

1. "...helping train Iraqi law enforcement"

Is this the same "Iraqi law enforcement" whose officers are murdered by British commandos?

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/20/1330222

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

2. i thought we had enough troops

[Javaman]

3. We do, but they are only now just being sent to Iraq LOL

[soup]

4. This needs to be noted, so it can be cited

round about - oh, let's randomly say - next August or September, when someone on the campaign trail is spouting:

"having stayed the course, and having made great strides, we are now able to reduce our presence by bringing home 10,000 troops".

and the crowd goes crazy - waving their flags and chanting 'USA. USA. USA.'

[PurityOfEssence]

8. Sorta like the deficit strategy, huh?

Send our yearly balance sheet so very far into the red that when an odd savings can be made, one can claim a victory. (Of course that necessitates keeping wars and natural disasters off the books...)

[rustydad]

5. Look out

Iran

[doublethink]

6. Bingo. N/T

[PurityOfEssence]

7. Nah, I'm sayin' Syria

a) Do things you can actually do.
b) Utilize local allies (Israel) to flesh out the force.
c) Secure your flank.
d) Fulfill the PNAC's true mission: protecting Israel.
e) Strut in Reaganite arrogance and show how tough we are.

[rustydad]

9. Syria?

Nothing there but poverty. Iran=big oil+huge gas. We want it and will bomb for it. Tactical nucs are in the wind, only limited ground forces. The key is China. Will they stay on the sidelines? Will they arm Irans Onyx and Sunburn hyper fast anti ship missles with 200 kilo nucs? Bush is insane afterall. And his advisors are yes men. The better informed military men have all been sidelined. I really, really hope I am very, very wrong....but? Bob

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. yep I smell Iran

after all we alraedy deployed teh core of the 82nd for ahem police work....

Iran yep it smells like the winds of August all ove again

[buzzsaw_23]

12. Fasten your seatbelts for another savage cakewalk.

The impending Cakewalk in Iran 

By Mike Whitney 

09/26/05 "ICH" -- -- "Top-ranking Americans have told equally top-ranking Indians in recent weeks that the US has plans to invade Iran before Bush's term ends. In 2002, a year before the US invaded Iraq, high-ranking Americans had similarly shared their definitive vision of a post-Saddam Iraq, making it clear that they would change the regime in Baghdad." Calcutta Telegraph 9-25-05 

The UN's nuclear watchdog agency, the IAEA, officially signed Iran's death-warrant yesterday. By passing a US-backed resolution that refers Iran's nuclear program to the Security Council, the member states have endorsed America's genocidal Middle East policy and paved the way for another war. Even though Tal Afar, Samara and other civilian enclaves are still under a withering attack from American forces, and even though reports of rampant prisoner abuse and torture continue to surface around Falluja, and even though increasing numbers of young Sunni men, who've been beaten and shot in the back of the head, are being fished from the Euphrates River every day; the sycophantic Euro-allies have thrown their support behind a resolution that will unavoidably lead to another war. Everyone who signed on to this treacherous pact is equally culpable of the misery it will inevitably produce. 

<snip>

The handwriting is on the wall. It's just a matter of whether Iran "will go peacefully into that good night" or not. The ground has already been cleared for another larcenous crusade; another monstrous, unprovoked aggression against a peaceful nation. The red-herring of "non-compliance" will be brandished to the world while Washington gears up for its next bloody campaign. The plan to reshape the Middle East is moving forward at breakneck-speed and unsuspecting Iran just entered the imperial crosshairs. 


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10402.htm

[Fleshdancer]

11. So these 20,000 troops will return late Sept 2006? Nice campaign point

for the GOP right before midterm elections. :eyes: